Links and Tweets for the Week: March 3, 2010 « how to save the world
, By Gary Greenberg (reviewed by Louis Menand in the New Yorker) debunks the industrial saving fable that discouragement is a condition that needs chemical and healthy “curing”. Our customs is collapsing, we’ve fagged the commonplace resources our planet took a billion years to department store up, we fare in suffocating, crawling, polluted, horrifically stressful conditions, and we have launched the planet into the 6th international extinction. Why shouldn’t we tolerate bad? Thanks to Raffi Aftandelian for the constituent:
The State Introduce of Unbalanced Healthiness estimates that more than fourteen million Americans suffer from principal unhappiness every year, and more than three million suffer from paltry bust (whose symptoms are milder but last longer than two years). Greenberg thinks that numbers like these are farcical—not because people aren’t depressed but because, in most cases, their recession is not a disposition bug. It’s a sensible comeback to a batty community .
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